The Flourishing Parish: A Simple “Rule” For Renewal and Connection

 
 
“Mike worked with the Minnesota National Guard to build a strategic plan for our Beyond the Yellow Ribbon program and my copy of Ultimate Breakthrough Planning has been highlighted, dog-eared, starred, underlined, and notes dress up many of the margins. His book assisted me in developing dozens of marketing, PR and recruiting strategies for both government and private projects since since I got my hands on a copy. It has a prominent and permanent place in every office I’ve lead. I’m so looking forward to his next book! ”
— Melanie Nelson, Account Director, Media Relations at Weber Shandwick, Maj. (Retired) Minnesota National Guard

Parish Renewal

Positive Strategy Coaching

Strategic planning should be a process that engages all stakeholders and moves the organization forward. Yet much strategic planning is just the same old, same old, using SWOT analysis and coming up with the same issues. Our strategic coaching process engages stakeholders, not just leadership and focuses on creating Flourishing Organizations© and moving beyond success to impact!

What does it mean for an organization to be flourishing?

The Flourishing Organization© creates positive deviance. Positive deviance is dramatically exceeding the norm and outperforming competitors. We focus on six specific areas that lead to positive deviance:

  • Understands and Aligns our purpose, vision, mission and guiding principles to all stakeholders

  • Stakeholder Value: Emphasis on creating value for Employees, Customers, Community

  • Recognizes a balanced, positive culture and unleashes it's potential

  • Fosters Innovation and Successfully Adapts To Change

  • Character and Strengths based leadership and management

  • Focused on and functions for long term viability/profitability/efficiency

Our strategy coaching process begins with our proprietary Positive Performance Index© that will help assess how your organization is performing in the six areas of a Flourishing Organization©. We will then engage management and employees in fleshing out the results of the assessment and help you implement strategies for flourishing.

With over 30 years of experience working with businesses, boards, nonprofits and institutions and churches Mike can assist you in developing a game plan for success. Mike helps you understand what you need to do to become a Flourishing Organization© and then facilitates a strategic planning process that will move you forward. The planning approach used comes from Mike’s newly revised book that was originally written in 2008. The Business Planning Funnel is a straightforward approach used by hundreds of organizations over the past 14 years. To learn more about our process contact us.